Dero means “beat” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1194 — beon in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1194 δέρω (dero) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. dero (der'-o) v. 1. (properly) to flay 2. (by implication) to scourge It has 16 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include beat, beating, beateth, and smite. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
dero (der'-o) v. 1. (properly) to flay 2. (by implication) to scourge 3. (by analogy) to thrash [a primary verb] KJV: beat, smite
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to beat up
Usage: δέρω [in LXX: Lev.1:6, 2Ch.29:34; 35:11 (פָּשַׁט hi.)* ;] __1. to skin, flay. __2. (of. Eng. slang, hide) to beat, thrash: with accusative, Mat.21:35, Mrk.12:3, 5, Luk.20:10, 11 22:63, Jhn.18:23, Act.5:40 16:37 22:19; ὡς ἀέρα δέρων, 1Co.9:26; εἰς πρόσωπου δ., 2Co.11:20. Pass., Mrk.13:9, Luk.12:47, 48 (δαρήσεται πολλάς, ὀλίγας, Sc. πληγάς).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render dero, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1194 (δέρω) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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15 indexed usages in New Testament.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But the priests were few, and could not flay the whole burnt offering, so their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was finished, and until the priests had purified themselves: for the Levites more zealously purified themselves than the priests.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1194.
But the priests were few, and could not flay the whole burnt offering, so their brethren the Levites helped them, until the work was finished, and until the priests had purified themselves: for the Levites more zealously purified themselves than the priests.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.
Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?
And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1194, grouped by book.
Dero (Strong's G1194) is a Greek word most simply glossed "beat". dero (der'-o) v. 1. (properly) to flay 2. (by implication) to scourge
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's G1194 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1194 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as beat, beating, beateth, and smite. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G1194, with linked reader references where each row is available.